BARTLETT, Franklin, a Representative from New York; born in Worcester County, Mass.,
September 10, 1847; was graduated from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in
1865 and from Harvard University in 1869; attended Columbia College Law School
in 1869; was admitted to the bar in 1870; attended Exeter College, Oxford
University, England, in 1870 and 1871; concluded the course at Columbia College
Law School in 1873; served as a member of the constitutional commission of the
State of New York in 1890; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at
Chicago in 1892; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth
Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; colonel of Volunteers in the war with
Spain in 1898; died in New York City on April 23, 1909; interment in Greenwood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.